[paul]

The network path lengths can be very inefficient and two places that are physically nearby may have a very long path between them because of group choices. Locality and distance are not reflected in the path lengths. This makes it difficult to implement physical applications where distance and time are important parameters. Such applications are more likely to set up their own routing paths that are efficient for their system, this might be an overview, however check this tutorial how to set up MySQL ODBC Driver, I hope this can fix the problem pertaining to ODBC driver;
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www. sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?setupapostgresqlodbcdriver.htm